While NCIS: Origins is a great show on its own, its premiere had striking similarities to the original NCIS pilot over 20 years ago. NCIS: Origins is the latest spinoff from the NCIS franchise, and it will follow Gibbs at the start of his career with NIS before the organization became NCIS. The NCIS: Origins premiere had a significantly darker tone than any episode of NCIS, but it also included several callbacks to the pilot episode that started it all.
